The fourth season of stranger things continues to generate reactions. Currently, it is not only about the second most impressive and seen series on Netflix, but about the number of curiosities and interpretations that it generates even when this stage of the story has ended. The series is at something of a peak in pop culture and that makes a lot of those associated with it relevant. In this sense, one of the key aspects is neighborinterpreted by Jamie Campbell Bower.
Vecna, who before assuming her bestial form was known as 001 or Henry Creellthe first patient of dr brenner (interpreted by Matthew Modine), is one of the characters that has generated the most comments. They are explained from their actions within the series, corrupting the minds of their victims and then murdering them cruelly and brutally. But also for everything that surrounds him, in particular, his physical transformation.
To share part of the process, Netflix shared a video showing how Jamie Campbell Bower experienced the makeup process. The work, meticulous at the request of the creators of the series, Matt and Ross Dufferit took about seven hours prior to filming the scenes of stranger things. Next, the video.
stranger things: Jamie Campbell Bower’s preparation to be Vecna
The video, titled “Become a neighbor”rigorously details the different stages of the process experienced by Jamie Campbell Bower, as part of his acting work to play the main villain of stranger things (and one of the main “bad guys” in pop culture today). Although there are currently multiple special effects that could have facilitated the process, the intention of Matt and Ross Duffer with this type of makeup was to generate a much more realistic experience, although some post-production retouching was necessary later.
This last fact, which may be minor or unnecessary, resonates with the universe proposed by stranger things. It is a series set in the 80’s, when the technological advances of the time seemed far from current tools. So, taking that other path, closer to acting and traditional cinema than to the CGIis a way of being consistent with the experience that the series wants to generate.
During the video, Jamie Campbell Bower, a Barry Gower, designer of the make-up prosthesis, among others involved in the scenes and the work, reflecting and describing the process. The video also allows fans to be able to approach scenes from the series from another place, one in which they are in a “raw” state in relation to the final result. Gower offers a technical and practical explanation of your searches. One of them consisted of giving the character a texture similar to that of the upside downas if it were about representing, in one being, all the evil that is found on the other side.
stranger things will have a new season, the fifth. It will be the last.